By Will Sturgeon
Published: Thursday 26 April 2007
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Name
misceng
Location
UK
Occupation
retired
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Buffer overrun seems to be the major source of security breaches in current software. I remember the days of interpreted Basic. Then I wrote programs with a routine which accepted all inputs and passed it byte by byte to the routine that should accept it. The routine vetted the input and would not accept any bytes in excess of the necessary input. Is it naive in this age to expect similar care in handling buffering.
I see that Graham Cluley is looking at his own job...
Simon Bain
Can he define where security starts & software end...
Tony Whitby
Buffer overrun seems to be the major source of sec...
misceng
Cars come with brakes, yes, but despite that there...
Will McMeechan
The wide area network cannot be truly policed simp...
Dr John Dimmock
"We expect cars to come with brakes, so why are we...
Anonymous
interesting analogy, but cars were around for abou...
me
Allow me to reiterate comments I have previously m...
Dr Mark Hosey
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Rob garner
People aren't happy to pay extra, its just that we...
Nick Cole
Very interesting set of assertions. One of the wa...
Barmak Meftah
I've made this argument not just about security, b...
Andrew Rice
Rob garner is right, it depends on what you're try...
Anonymous
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